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To: tekboy who wrote (23247)	4/3/2002 3:05:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

A wonderful piece in the Post on our war in Afghanistan I am just posting the start of the article for brevity. I have read that Rumford had to "Knock Heads" within the Air Force Brass to make this work. By Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 3, 2002; Page A01 Two darkened helicopters rocked through a nighttime storm that had smothered the Panjshir Valley in clouds. The MH-53J Pave Lows -- the largest choppers in the Air Force inventory -- suddenly felt like tin to the soldiers riding in back. One helicopter was flying blind, its electronic sensors having failed. "Pull up! Pull up!" someone shouted from the cockpit as a mountainside appeared out of the black. As the chopper surged upward, Chief Warrant Officer David Diaz hung on in back and worried. He and the 11 other soldiers split between the two helicopters constituted Team 555 of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Rough weather had already foiled their mission twice -- and it was a once-in-a-lifetime mission. Team 555 had been chosen to be the first A-team infiltrated into Afghanistan during the war, the vanguard of a small, nearly invisible U.S. ground presence that helped topple the Taliban with stunning speed and tested a new template for warfare. washingtonpost.com

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